Jerry H. Twomey, Writer, Born 1960, educated by the Christian Brothers in Youghal. Traveled extensively, lived and worked abroad in France, Holland and in London. He lives in Cork City now. He has been writing since school when his friend Tom asked him to write a ballad for him. The Ballad of Tom was torn from the blue lined copybook of cruel and careless beauty, balled up and thrown at the teacher’s back while the white chalk stick squealed at the black board. This is what poems are for…